RIP.
okaydo said:dimitrig said:okaydo said:
William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of the movies below, has died.
Directed 2 of the greatest car chase scenes in movies.
Fun fact: His wife, Sherry Lansing, was a member of the University of California Board of Regents from 1999 to 2022.
My connection to William Friedkin was through his former fiancee and the mother of his son, Jennifer Nairn-Smith who I interacted with regularly for a few years maybe a decade ago or more. She was a dancer, is a dance teacher, and also sells (or sold) real estate.
He denied her son was his for a long time, although he ultimately accepted that fact.
He provided for her and his son, but not in the way he could have or should have given his wealth and that of Sherry. They met on the set of The Exorcist and she was with him during his meteoric rise but he was a womanizer and also afraid of commitment.
He was a good filmmaker, but not a good father and a horrible human being.
Ha! One of my childhood friends was the (alleged) son of a famous married Hollywood person. This famous person publicly admitted to being in my friend's mom's home 9 months before my friend was born. But he went to his grave denying he was the father, so there was no relationship.
wifeisafurd said:
NO obit for the Pac?
concordtom said:okaydo said:dimitrig said:okaydo said:
William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of the movies below, has died.
Directed 2 of the greatest car chase scenes in movies.
Fun fact: His wife, Sherry Lansing, was a member of the University of California Board of Regents from 1999 to 2022.
My connection to William Friedkin was through his former fiancee and the mother of his son, Jennifer Nairn-Smith who I interacted with regularly for a few years maybe a decade ago or more. She was a dancer, is a dance teacher, and also sells (or sold) real estate.
He denied her son was his for a long time, although he ultimately accepted that fact.
He provided for her and his son, but not in the way he could have or should have given his wealth and that of Sherry. They met on the set of The Exorcist and she was with him during his meteoric rise but he was a womanizer and also afraid of commitment.
He was a good filmmaker, but not a good father and a horrible human being.
Ha! One of my childhood friends was the (alleged) son of a famous married Hollywood person. This famous person publicly admitted to being in my friend's mom's home 9 months before my friend was born. But he went to his grave denying he was the father, so there was no relationship.
DNA test???
okaydo said:concordtom said:okaydo said:dimitrig said:okaydo said:
William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director of the movies below, has died.
Directed 2 of the greatest car chase scenes in movies.
Fun fact: His wife, Sherry Lansing, was a member of the University of California Board of Regents from 1999 to 2022.
My connection to William Friedkin was through his former fiancee and the mother of his son, Jennifer Nairn-Smith who I interacted with regularly for a few years maybe a decade ago or more. She was a dancer, is a dance teacher, and also sells (or sold) real estate.
He denied her son was his for a long time, although he ultimately accepted that fact.
He provided for her and his son, but not in the way he could have or should have given his wealth and that of Sherry. They met on the set of The Exorcist and she was with him during his meteoric rise but he was a womanizer and also afraid of commitment.
He was a good filmmaker, but not a good father and a horrible human being.
Ha! One of my childhood friends was the (alleged) son of a famous married Hollywood person. This famous person publicly admitted to being in my friend's mom's home 9 months before my friend was born. But he went to his grave denying he was the father, so there was no relationship.
DNA test???
This was before DNA tests.
But when DNA tests became a thing, and the son was in his 20s, he tried to get a DNA test. The judge turned him down.
bearister said:
I'm confused, what is the difference between a genealogist and a gynecologist?
David McCallum, the Scottish-born actor who became a sensation on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” in the 1960s and found television stardom again almost 40 years later on the hit series “NCIS,” died on Monday. He was 90. https://t.co/KGXutkPMOL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 26, 2023
concordtom said:
... I'm so obsessed with Trump ...
Terry Kirkman, a founder of the 1960s pop group the Association, whose lush vocal harmonies and sugary melodic hooks propelled a string of indelible hits, including “Cherish” (which he wrote) and “Along Comes Mary,” has died at 83. https://t.co/l6NC8iePbZ
— New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) September 26, 2023
Here's my lasting impression of The Association as their heyday was a little before I got heavily into music. Back around 1990, I was at the Silver Legacy Casino in Reno and decided to go to the bar for a drink. They had a band playing in the bar and they were pretty good, though they were playing a series of covers of songs by The Association. Slowly it dawned on me that it actually was The Association playing their own songs for free at the bar (no cover - not even a requirement to by alcohol). I recognized a couple of the original members but wasn't sure about the others. At one point, the lead singer (Kirkman I think) spent about 5 minutes introducing Cherish with a long spiel about how universally important and loved the song was and how proud they were to have created it. I stayed for about an hour and enjoyed it. As I left, I felt sorry for them as they had fallen a long way since their time at the top and it didn't seem like they had fully come to grips with it.bearister said:
Eastern Oregon Bear said:Here's my lasting impression of The Association as their heyday was a little before I got heavily into music. Back around 1990, I was at the Silver Legacy Casino in Reno and decided to go to the bar for a drink. They had a band playing in the bar and they were pretty good, though they were playing a series of covers of songs by The Association. Slowly it dawned on me that it actually was The Association playing their own songs for free at the bar (no cover - not even a requirement to by alcohol). I recognized a couple of the original members but wasn't sure about the others. At one point, the lead singer (Kirkman I think) spent about 5 minutes introducing Cherish with a long spiel about how universally important and loved the song was and how proud they were to have created it. I stayed for about an hour and enjoyed it. As I left, I felt sorry for them as they had fallen a long way since their time at the top and it didn't seem like they had fully come to grips with it.bearister said:
From the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein: pic.twitter.com/rvcAmVk8O0
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) September 29, 2023
Wow — fmr Rep. Jane Harman shares on @MSNBC right now with @mitchellreports a photo she took with Feinstein just last night around 5 pm at her house pic.twitter.com/BMWipqwrIg
— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) September 29, 2023
So you think she was in the habit of discussing sensitive foreign policy issues with her driver?BearHunter said:
Was Feinstein shocked when she found out her long time personal driver was a CCP spy?
In the last days of her life, Democrats wheeled Sen. Dianne Feinstein into Congress and TOLD her how to vote instead of letting her enjoy the time with her family. That's elder abuse.
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) September 29, 2023
bearister said:
R.I.P. DiFi*
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/29/1125664267/dianne-feinstein-obituary
I will never forget her grace, courage and calmness after the City Hall Murders.
"As President of the Board of Supervisors, it is my duty to announce that both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Milk have been shot and killed."
Such a lovely woman. The first time I saw her up close was at a Hibernian Newman Club St. Patrick's Day Lunch at the Jack Tar Hotel a year or two after she became mayor. I was shocked how tall she was (5'10).From the office of Senator Dianne Feinstein: pic.twitter.com/rvcAmVk8O0
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) September 29, 2023
*Memory tells me Herb Caen bestowed that nickname but I can't confirm it.
I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the committee ask me to come to Washington… pic.twitter.com/QQPA04hP22
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) September 29, 2023
MinotStateBeav said:I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the committee ask me to come to Washington… pic.twitter.com/QQPA04hP22
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) September 29, 2023
Quote:
I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the committee ask me to come to Washington DC to brief her on Iraqi WMD and the allegations being made by the Bush administration that Iraq continued to possess them. We met in a secure conference room in the Capital buildingme, the Senator, and a half dozen staffers and aides. It was a polite, professional affair, with the Senator asking questions and taking notes. Eventually she confronted me"Your position is causing us some difficulty. You are making the US look bad in the eyes of the world." I replied that my analysis and the underlying facts were rock solid, something she agreed with. I said that while I knew she couldn't reveal sensitive intelligence, if she could look me in the eye and say she has seen unequivocal proof that Iraq retained WMD, I'd shut up and go away. She looked at her retinue, and then me. "I have seen no such intelligence," she replied. She thanked me for the briefing, and said it provided her with "food for thought."
On October 11, 2002, Senator Feinstein voted in favor of the resolution authorizing war with Iraq. Later, she said she had been misled by the Bush administration and bad intelligence.
I will forever know Senator Feinstein as someone who had been empowered by the truth, and lacked the moral courage to act on it. The blood of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis stains her soul. I hope when she stands in judgment before her maker, she is punished accordingly.
bearister said:
Ex-NFL star Russ Francis is killed in Upstate New York plane crash
"To Russ, flying was like breathing...it came naturally and he lived for it. He used to fly his P-51 Mustang to practice and land in the stadium parking lot and really piss off Bill Walsh.
Cal88 said:
^Brought to you by the letters T, D and S.
concordtom said:Cal88 said:
^Brought to you by the letters T, D and S.
Did you think it was funny when Trump mocked Paul Pelosi getting whacked or said MFers in his SoCal GOP speech?
You wanna know what I think is funny?
Trump's fraud trial in NY!
"Massive fraud", the judge said.
Oh, yes, Trump belongs in the Obituaries thread.
Or, at least, Trump's NY business operations: DOA.